The Bartlett Library holds some 18,000 volumes on our open shelves, having grown by gift and purchase, from the core collection of 6,000 volumes, generously donated by our benefactor J. V. Bartlett Esq., in 2003.
Significant loans from the Cornwall Library Service (including a number of Lloyd’s Registers), together with gifts from many individuals have greatly increased the size and value of the collection since our establishment in 2003, supplemented by the Peter and Julie Newall Library in 2018.
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloody War [A] | Lawrence, Hal | Macmillan of Canada | 0-7705-1734-X | navy Canada WW2 |
| Blow Five | Hallam, W B | Journal of Commerce & Shipping Telegraph Ltd | company Liverpool Alexander tug towage Mersey | |
| Blow for the Landing: 100 Years of Steam Navigation | Timmen, Fritz | Schiffer Publishing Ltdf | 0-7643-0318-x | Columbia River steam stern wheeler |
| Blown Away | Payson, Herb | Stanford Maritime | 0-540-07403-9 | yacht cruising Pacific |
| Blue Book of Coastal Vessels Thailand | Blue Book of Coastal Vessels | Dhow Prau junk fishing contraband | ||
| Blue Catalinas of World War 2 | Mills, James C | Sunflower University Press | 0-89745-190-2 | Catalina flyingboat Seattle PearlHarbour Hawaii Pacific |
| Blue For a Girl | Drummond, John D | W H Allen | navy WW2 sociology WRNS | |
| Blue Funnel | Hyde, Francis E | Liverpool University Press | Rochdale Ocean tea cargo accidents losses China Batavia Singapore Glasgow textiles Australia Manchester | |
| Blue Funnel and Glen Line bulletin | Blue Funnel and Glen Line | Alfred Holt | company navy merchant uniform Holt liner passenger | |
| Blue Funnel Legend [The] | Falkus, Malcolm | Macmillan | 0-333-52283-4 | Blue Funnel Holt services economics WW2 WW1 container managers directors Phemis Cory |
| Blue Funnel Line | Clarkson, John | Ships in Focus | 1-901703-01-0 | list company Blue Funnel Holt |
| Blue Funnel Line | Collard, Ian | Amberley | 978-1-4456-3385-5 | history company WW2 steam liner WW1 WW2 bulk carrier tanker owner tonnage |
| Blue Funnel Line [The] | Blue | Alfred Holt history trade China fleet Australia WW1 cruising construction | ||
| Blue Funnel Line [The] | Moore, Terry | S B Publications | 1-870708-12-1 | history shipbuilder steam shipowner engine WW2 tonnage dimensions |
| Blue Funnel the Later Years 1925-1982 | Blue Funnel | Kinglish Ltd | 0-9513202-2-X | Blue Funnel Holt Agamemnon Priam Troilus Titan Cyclops |
| Blue Funnels in the Mersey in the 1920s | Blue Funnel | Kinglish Ltd | 0-9513202-0-3 | company Holt Ajax Centaur Diomed Jason Laertes Nestor Perseus Rhesus |
| Blue Gum Clippers and Whale Ships of Tasmania | Lawson, Will | Georgian House Melborne | Australia Hobart whaling colonial shipbuilding list hulks harbours California shipwrecks Launceston | |
| Blue Latitudes | Horwitz, Tony | Henry Holt & Co | 0-312-42260-1 | adventure exploration Hawaii Pacific Cook Maori |
| Blue Riband [The] | Lee, Charles E | Sampson Low Marston | historic transatlantic Cunard liner Collins Norddeutscher Inman White Star Guion Morgan shipbuilder | |
| Blue Riband of the Atlantic [The] | Hughes, Tom | Patrick Stephens | 0-85059-146-5 | Cunard Lusitania Mauretania White Star historic WW1 WW2 Inman migration shipbuilder |
| Blue Star | Atkinson, Tony | World Ship Society | 0-905617-37-1 | fleet shipbuilder Vestey launch shipyard company |
| Blue Star Line | Taffrail | company merchant warloss WW2 Blue Star medal | ||
| Blue Star Line A Fleet History | Blue Star Line | Ships in Focus Publications | 978-0-9928263-8-3 | Vestey family fleet lists dimensions shipbuilders owners cargoes routes flags funnels WW2 |
| Blue Strand Guide to Better Wire Rope Life | Blue Strand | British Ropes | rope wire mooring | |
| Blue Water | Hildebrand, Arthur S | Jonathan Cape | New York Scotland Gibraltar France Mallorca Italy Spain Paragas Capri | |
| Blue Water Cruising | Tate, Michael | Temple Press Books | Corinth crew Mediterranean Gibraltar Adriatic Corfu Malta Istanbul Canaries Barbados | |
| Blue Water Green Skipper | Woods, Stuart | Stanford Maritime | 0-540-07168-4 | racing Mirror dinghy engine equipment Gypsy Moth weather Atlantic navigation |
| Blue Water Sail at Ipswich | Smith, Richard W | Society for Sailing Barge Research | 0-9500515-7-8 | square sail 3 and 4 masted ships barques full rigger bounty Gustaf Erikson Pamir |
| Blue Water Vagabond | Puleston, Dennis | Peter Davies | yacht cruising West Indies weather disaster ice Panama Galapagos pearls Samoa Manila Tahiti Fiji Kava | |
| Blue Water Ventures | Ryder, S W | Hodder and Stoughton | square rig narrative sociology Russia WW1 convoy submarine | |
| Bluebird: a dream of a boat in six Acts | Summers, Martin | Collectors Books Limited | 0-946604-03-7 | Dunkirk Malcolm Campbell Henley restoration |
| Bluebirds Over Coniston | Bluebirds | The Ruskin Museum | speed Lakes Cumbria K7 Leo Villa jet Metropolitan Vickers Robinson | |
| Blue-Water Boundary: Epic Highway of the Great Lakes and St Lawrence | Malkus, Alida | Hastings House | Fur trade Indian heritage Wolfe history | |
| Bluewater Handbook | Dashew, Steve | Beowulf | 0-688-04195-7 | yacht Tortola winch Plexiglas storm Fiji New Zealand |
| Bluewater Seamanship | Mort, S W | Murray Book | 85566-392-8 | yacht cruising textbook seamanship medical rescue collision |
| Bluff Harbour | Hall-Jones, John | Southland Harbour Board | ferries Stewart oyster whaling Maori Tiwai aluminium Molineux Endeavour Cook Foveaux | |
| Blyth, Greene, Jourdain and Co | Muir, Augustus | Newman Neame | company Blyth interior | |
| Blythe in Old Picture Postcards | Balmer, Robert | European Library Zaltbommel Netherlands | 90-288-2172-4 | church bridge Ridley planning lighthouse hospital railway quay colliery ferry Thunderer shipbuilding tug |
| Boadicea CK 213 | Frost, Michael | Angus & Robertson | sailing Colchester Maldon Essex Mersea marshes Blackwater Harwich bawley Wivenhoe | |
| Boat | Heaton, Peter | Kaye & Ward | 7182-0802-1 | yacht poetry shanty sociology fiction folklore humour |
| Boat | Kentley, Eric | Dorling Kindersley | 0-86318-793-5 | junior |
| Boat [The] | Boat | Time-Life Books | hull design motor sail California kayak wood rig sloop | |
| Boat [The] | Gibson, Walter | W H Allen | survival WW2 lifeboat Sumatra | |
| Boat Building | Blandford, Percy W | Foyles Handbooks | boatbuilding canoe dinghy praam rowing lines plans hardchine | |
| Boat Building | Roberts-Goodson, Bruce | Capall Bann | 1-898307-06-7 | boatbuilding GRP steel wood aluminium |
| Boat Building From Kits | Mason, Kenneth | Adlard Coles | construction tools equipment assembly fittings materials design dinghy catamaran sails | |
| Boat Building Simplified | Ashcroft, Herbert J | Capt O M Watts | shipbuilding dinghy tools lines | |
| Boat Building Techniques Illustrated | Birmingham, Richard | Granada | 0-229-11670-1 | boat wood abrasion plywood corrosion steel aluminium copper |
| Boat Data Book | Nicolson, Ian | Nautical Books | 0-85177-345-1 | fishing anchors rope mooring winch safety tools lights materials brass metric |
| Boat Design | Tumminelli, Paolo | Neues Publishing Company (te) | 978-3-8327-9054-7 | design power motorboat boatbuilders |